The UK is abandoning efforts to develop its own contact-tracing app in order to focus on technology from Apple and Google.
In a major U-turn the app developed by the NHS’s digital arm will now be dropped, but some features will be incorporated into a new design with the technology giants.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock defended the decision, saying testing on the Isle of Wight had uncovered a ‘technical barrier’.
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